[HPforGrownups] Re: Voldemort descendents WAS BRAVE Riddle / Voldemort-Potter connection

[Katze]

No: HPFGUIDX 40323

bluesqueak wrote:

> 
> Yes, I'd agree with 'British usage'. At least whenever I say 'ah, 
> you've spotted the deliberate mistake' it translates as 'oops, I 
> didn't catch that mistake, did I?' :-)
> 
> You have to jump through a lot of hoops to get 'ancestor' to make 
> sense (a lot more than you have to jump through to get a obviously 
> High Medieval castle built in 9th Century Scotland [grin]- apologies 
> for going off topic there). And the fact that later editions DO now 
> have 'descendant' suggests it was a genuine error in wording.

Wasn't this switched back to ancestor in later editions? I have a middle 
editions that says descendant. Can someone with a later editions check to see 
what is says now?

> I think it has to be taken as canon that *as-far-as-Dumbledore-
> knows*, Tom Riddle has no children. Of course, this doesn't mean that 
> he actually has no children, since it's possible that he may have one 
> or two little bastards that he (and Dumbledore) don't know about. And 
> the child him or herself may not know the identity of their real 
> father. 

It is an enitrely possible for Riddle to have a child and D not know - it worked 
in Star Wars. The Emperor never knew that Vader had a child (he knew he had one, 
but not two! But this isn't a star wars chat is it?).

This brings me to another point. Here's a snippet from an interview with Rowling:

"Question: Is Voldemort some sort of relative of Harry's? Possibly his mother's 
brother?

J.K. Rowling responds: I'm laughing...that would be a bit Star Wars, wouldn't it?"

I don't think Rowling is going to make Harry and V related. I do think someone 
will end up being related to him. I actually kind of hope that it's Hermione. V 
is so bent on getting rid of mudbloods - I think it would be satisfying for him 
to learn that a direct decendent of his is muggle-born. I also think it would be 
wonderful if V didn't die in the end, but just lost all of his wizarding power.

<snip>

> Equally, the 'little bastard' theory might well apply to the 'last 
> remaining Slytherin descendant'. There are no known descendants of 
> Slytherin apart from Tom Riddle - but as Hermione points out in CoS, 
> it's awfully difficult to prove or deny descent from someone who 
> lived a thousand years ago; for all we know Harry, or his mother 
> Lily, or Snape, or Hermione, or Dumbledore himself could all be 
> descendants of Slytherin without actually knowing it.

If anyone, Hermione would be the one to find out who is the actual descendant. I 
could just imagine the look in her face if she found out it was her!

> 
> Pip

Katze